Tim Vogus

Biography

Nationally recognized for his teaching abilities and his research on making health care delivery safer and workplaces more inclusive of neurodiversity, Tim Vogus teaches a class on leading teams and organizations that is among the most popular at Owen.

Awards & Accomplishments

Professor Vogus was named one of the 50 most influential business professors of 2013 and earlier named one of the Top 40 Business School Professors under 40 by PoetsandQuants.com in 2011. He was the recipient of the Owen Graduate School of Management Research Productivity Award in 2013 and the Research Impact Award in 2022. His teaching has been recognized with the Excellence in Teaching Award from the Health Care Management Division of the Academy of Management in 2019, the James A. Webb Jr. Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2007 and 2013; he was a finalist for the Webb award on 13 other occasions, and a Dean’s Award for Teaching Innovation in 2018. He previously taught Organizational Behavior at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, and in 2002-2003, he received the Gerald and Lillian Dykstra Fellowship for Teaching Excellence.

Leadership

Professor Vogus is the Faculty Director of the Leadership Development Program and the Deputy Director of the Frist Center for Autism and Innovation. He serves as an Associate Editor of Health Care Management Review and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Service Management. He previously served as the Division Chair for the Health Care Management Division of the Academy of Management. He is also a founding and continuing member of the Blue Ribbon Panel that developed Leapfrog Group's Hospital Safety Score and was a member National Academy of Science/National Research Council panel on Strengthening Safety Culture in the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry.

Publications

Professor Vogus’ research has been published or is forthcoming in an array of top autism (Autism), health services (Health Affairs, Health Services Research, Medical Care, Medical Care Research and Review), industrial relations (ILR Review), management (Academy of Management Annals, Academy of Management Review, Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior, Journal of Management), medical (Annals of Emergency Medicine), nursing (Journal of Nursing Administration), and social work (Children and Youth Services Review) journals. With Ariel Avgar, he co-edited The Evolving Healthcare Landscape: How Employees, Organizations, and Institutions Adapt and Innovate for Cornell University/ILR Press.

Teaching

Professor Vogus teaches Leading Teams and Organizations within the MBA core curriculum.

Research Interests

Professor Vogus' research specifies how to create and sustain highly reliable (i.e., nearly error-free) performance by strengthening safety culture and habituating mindful organizing – a set of behaviors by which collectives detect and correct errors and unexpected events. He is especially interested in these dynamics in health care settings and their effects on care quality, the incidence of medical error, patient experience, and frontline caregiver outcomes. More recently, he has turned his research to creating and sustaining workplace cultures that are more supportive and inclusive of neurodiversity as well as technologies that can help employers rethink existing practices inimical to neurodiversity (e.g., job interviews, feedback and performance reviews).

Education

Ph.D., University of Michigan, 2004

B.A., Michigan State University, 1995